Dr. phil. Christian de Simoni is a writer and lives in Bern. He also works as an editor and ghostwriter. Between 1999 and 2009, he studied German language and literature in Bern, Cologne, and Zurich and earned his doctorate with a thesis on contemporary literature after 9/11. He participated in the prose workshop at the Literary Colloquium Berlin and received the Prenzlauer Berg Literature Prize for an excerpt from his novel Rückseitenwetter (2011). He is particularly interested in customs, political discourse, and folk poetry. In two volumes of essays, he dealt with folk songs (Das Rigilied, 2017) and hiking as a cultural practice (wandern/schreiben, 2023).
